Special Issues Final

The first warriors were the _____ of old

knights

knights put a shield over their _____, and hang a weapon on their _____

chest, hip

The ____ are the new warriors

police

Phobia is an irrational, overwhelming, uncontrolled fear of a specific ____ or____

object, event

What is the most common phobia

snakes

Interpersonal human_____ is 5 times more likely to illicit a phobic response

aggression

Most people don't expect another human being to _____ harm them

intentionally

PTSD

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Any time the causal factor is ____ in nature the degree of trauma is more _____ and long lasting

human, severe

T/F: PTSD is rare and mild in traffic crashes and natural disasters

True

Almost ____when the traumatic event is caused by another human being

universal

Why is the outcome the same between the gang and tornado but is worse with the gang?

Because it is personal

When the causality is ____ we process it differently

human

T/F: PTSD and suicide is the #1 killer of cops

True

The suicide rate among cops is slightly ___ than that of the general population

less

In almost every measure except pay, cops are ____ members of society

superior

Who runs from the sound of the gun?

Every sane rational creature on the face of the earth flees

But the ____ runs towards the sounds if the guns

warrior

T/F: There is something wrong with you for running to gun sounds

False

Without the warriors willing to run towards the sound of the gun, within a generation civilization would ____

collapse

Almost everything you know about combat from stories is a ___

lie

Reality, in panic situation ____ and ____ control is gone

bowell, bladder

under extreme survival stress filling your pants is ____

normal

Sheep, like most people, would not dream of intentionally ____ another human being

harming

T/F: Sheep don't like sheepdogs until the wolf is at the door

True

Who are wolves?

Bad guys who prey on the sheep

Who are sheepdogs?

The modern day warriors

Sheep dogs must never ever intentionally ____ the sheep

harm

Two types of body responses to combat, ____ nervous system and ____ nervous system

sympathetic, parasympathetic

SNS is a ____movement and normally controlable

conscience

PNS is _____ bodily functions

unconscious

Our bodies need 4 basic things to fuciton air, ____, fuel, ____

fluids, sleep

T/F: We are living in a time where for the first time in history we aren't getting enough sleep

True

What does sleep deprivation do to a human

Erodes immunization, predisposed to heart disease, cancer, and stress response

You ___ catch up on sleep

can

You need _____ hours of sleep per night

6-8

People who try to function on 4hrs of sleep or less quickly become _____ and are ___ their bodies

ineffective, harming

____ minutes is the minimum time for an effective nap needs to be ____ and must be____

30, uninterrupted, dark

_____ can be effective if you are not already abusing the drug

Caffeince

24hrs without sleep is the equivalent of legally ____

drunk

Stress inoculation is very precise and you must come out the other end ____

successful

What is the initial common range of heart beats for simunition training?

220-250 bpm

____ bpm is optimum rate for ____motor skills

90, fine

____bpm, fine motor skills _____, harder to complete complex fine motor skill dependant tasks

115, deteriorate

____ bpm is the optimal ____ level, senses become _____ Optimal vision and cognitive reaction time

115-145, fighting, heightened

145 bpm, complex motor skill breaks down and bilateral _____ takes over

symmetry

above 175bpm causes the breakdown of _____ processing and other bad things happen here

cognitive

Fore-brain makes you ____

human

Vasoconstriction is the _____ system shutting down, blood is not getting to the ____, and the ____ stop working

Vascular, muscles

Tunnel visions is loss of ____ perception and loss of ____ vision

depth, near

Practice dialing _____

911

T/F: Whatever you rehearse will not be there for you

False

Might not see ____sights

pistol

____ exclusion

Auditory

Ear ____ shuts off/ down sound

physically

Above 200 bpm, ____, irrational fight or flight, _____ behavior, voiding of ____ and ____

freezing, submissive, bladder, bowels

Sensory overload is all 5 senses send _____ message simultaneously

emergency

Cops carry ____, bad guys often get ____ shot

Pistol, first

"All other things being equal, in combat, whoever makes the bigger ____ will win"

bang

Perceptual ___ in combat, _____ experienced auditory exclusion

distortions, 85%

T/F: In low light situations the body chose to shut down the eyes and turn on the ears

True

over ____ of cops who are dying are dying in low light conditions

50%

75% of cops did what they did in a combat situation without _____ thought

conscience

As your heart rate goes up you can ___ your speech unless you drill and practice

lose

____ loss, 12 of all cops walk away from a gunfight with serious ____ in thier ____

Memory, gaps, memory

T/F: Memory can return after a good nights sleep

True

47% of officers had memory gaps for their ____

actions

Most common gap, how many ___fired?

shots

Perserveration

Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response

There is a tendency for cops to shoot ____ than they can ___

faster, hit

90% vs 20% real life hit ratio, difference is ____ with sims

training

Intrusive/distractive thoughts #1 is ____

God

Memory____, 22% cops involved in a gunfight remember things that ____ ____ happen

distortions, did not

Under stress we envision ______

possibilities

Two reasons Fear and ____ set

perceptual

Perceptual set

What you expect to see is what you are going to see

When you touch a hot stove it developed a deep _____ network

neural

response to trauma or serious violent death (to ourselves)

Thank God it wasn't me

We often feel ____ for thinking this

guilty

How do we compensate guilt

I wish it had been me

In order to save ____ you must first save _____

others, yourself

T/F: The people who were there with you are the only ones who can give understanding, acceptance, forgiveness

True

Response to trauma or serious violent death (others to us)

Thank God it wasn't you

This response can cause you to ____ yourself from those you need most

distance

Responses to death and dying are denial, _____, bargaining, acceptance

anger

Nothing (Social ______)

Paralysis

What is the best thing to say

I'm glad you are ok

Normal stress resposes Fight, ___, feeding, ___

flight, mating

Lower/ increased sex drive is completely ____ if you have an ____ sexual partner

normal, appropriate

High school girls when they tax their bodies physically and girls who watches friend get butchered both have what in common

Their period may stop

PTSD is when you ___ from the meory

flee

_____ the memory from the physiological response

De-link

Make ____ with the memory

friends

___ attend CID (Critical Incident Debriefing) if you don't need it someone else might

Must

Use breathing exercise before, ____, and after event

during